well duh, reddit/X/Insta, MEta,,etc is infested by AI BOT/bot spammers for a while to spread propaganda or do things like promote links of OF, or other businesses. thats the other reason why they are very ban heavy as of late. diggs or any other platform would suffer the same fate.

blaming? shouldnt they have celebrated how much people utilize their beloved slopmachines?

MySpace reboot vs Spotify.

OH NO! But how? They resurrected Kevin Rose for this! /s

Honestly, the first rebirth as a run-of-the-mill article aggregator was better. A lot of it I'd have already seen elsewhere, but occasionally it'd have something interesting that I missed.

Whatever they do, they'll still be riding the name of a very dead horse.

They missed an opportunity there. Could have pivot something similar to moltbook.

I tried it and liked it a bit. The problem for me was that it was very empty: posts about the same article had more comments in Lemmy than Digg. It also lacked many features that even Lemmy has. And, since everyone was able to create 2 communities, there were more communities than users. Most of them were created and forgotten, while others tried to get bigger with only 1 user posting everyday. The biggest/mainstream communities had less than 100k users each one. After some days, I joined Lemmy and never looked back.

Didn't you have to buy an account at Digg? If so, were the bots buying the accounts? And if so, who was buying them?